Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Graziadio Academic Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graziadio Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MSOD 620B Practicum 3B: Future Forms of Organization (2)


This course integrates the entire MSOD curriculum, especially focusing on students’ in-depth development and articulation of their own practice point-of-view and research regarding organization development. Current issues facing organizations in the planning and management of change and recent advances in organization development and change are discovered and discussed. Topics will emerge depending on the state of the field, but may include topics like: the impact of technological change and globalization on organization design and on how people work, the role of leadership in managing innovation and creativity, sustainability, and processes of futures research. The research and practice of organizational endings is presented and experienced.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Demonstrate their integrated knowledge by taking a final integrative exam
  2. Demonstrate their professional and personal competence in OD through completion of the learning contract
  3. Explore changes facing them in the future
  4. Learn about organizational endings and practice closings
  5. Return to a reflection about “self as instrument”
Grading Basis: CR/NC/I